Historic object
Mästermyr tool chest 21592:132
Saws, drawknives, tongs and hammers travelled together in the Mästermyr chest. Its oak boards, iron lock and reusable scrap reveal the connections between crafts.
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Discover the objects, people and ideas that shaped furniture, from historic pieces to modern designs.
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Historic object
Mechanical Table 33.12
Open Riesener’s 1778 table for Marie Antoinette: a crank raises its marquetry top while panels become a lectern, mirror and six compartments.
Design
Meltingpot table
Kooij’s Meltingpot gives prototypes and colour tests another use, pressing them into a solid table whose changing pattern belongs to the material itself.
Historic object
Merry-Go-Round Coat Rack, Boijmans V2669a-o(KN&V)
Studio Wieki Somers’s commissioned 2008 cloakroom raised coats into an overhead display. The exact Boijmans artefact connects a familiar museum ritual with a collective spatial experience.
Historic object
Mesh Chair, MoMA 128.2010
Chris Kabel’s Mesh Chair uses shaped expanded-metal panels and welded seams to bring supporting structure and a patterned seating surface into the same material.
Historic object
Metamorphic Library Chair NT 354260
Discover the four steps hidden in a Regency library armchair, the hinge that changes its role and the evidence behind its Morgan and Sanders attribution.
Person
Michael Thonet
Follow Michael Thonet from experiments with glued veneers to solid bentwood, specialised factories and the organisation behind a familiar café chair.
Historic object
Microstructures aluminium gradient chair prototype, NGV 2016.425
The NGV’s 2014 aluminium prototype by Joris Laarman varies its cellular structure across the chair, making material density part of the design.
Person
Mieke Meijer
Mieke Meijer’s material experiments expand through a joint studio into room-scale objects. Collaboration with Roy Letterlé connects furniture, light and architectural space.
Design
Milk Bottle Lamp
Tejo Remy’s Milk Bottle Lamp keeps the familiar bottle shape and changes its setting. A twelve-bottle arrangement lifts the order of a milk crate above the floor.
Design
Miss Blanche chair
Look inside Shiro Kuramata’s 1988 Miss Blanche chair: artificial roses suspended in acrylic, purple aluminium legs and the labour behind an illusion of lightness.
Design
Model 370 Boomerang Chair
Read Alfred Christensen’s Model 370 Boomerang Chair in profile, where one angular timber side member turns seat support into the defining silhouette.
Design
Mondial Chair
Gerrit and Wim Rietveld’s Mondial chair brings its structure into a compact meeting point. A museum example helps separate the original idea from later variants.
Design
Mouille three-arm floor lamp
Follow Serge Mouille’s three-arm lamp from its branching steel body to brass joints and white-lined shades that give each light a direction.
Technique
Moulded plywood
Follow moulded plywood from ornate Belter furniture to wartime splints and aircraft, and see how thin layers allow wood to take a manufactured curve.
Historic object
Napoleon’s camp bed, Musée de l’Armée
Explore the folding bed associated with Napoleon, the Desouches system of travelling furniture and the distinction between two surviving Saint Helena beds.
Technique
NewspaperWood layering
NewspaperWood turns laminated newspaper layers into a wood-like grain. Mieke Meijer’s experiment connects material development to the furniture that later uses it.
Person
Niels van Eijk
Niels van Eijk’s individually credited Cow Chair and Bobbin Lace Lamp show materials taking new roles. The joint studio account adds a distinct collaborative context.
Person
Niels Vodder
Use Guild records and museum objects to understand how cabinetmaker Niels Vodder turned Finn Juhl's demanding furniture ideas into small-series physical work.
Design
Niko Kralj Rex folding lounge chair
Rex offers a shaped wooden seat and a useful way to put it away. Niko Kralj combined curved, slotted plywood with folding, so a chair generous enough for sitting could make room for the rest of life.
Historic object
No Screw No Glue Chair, Centraal Museum 35239
Joost van Bleiswijk’s 2003 birch-plywood chair at Centraal Museum makes interlocking panel shapes the starting point of its construction.
Design
No Sign of Design Chair
Richard Hutten’s No Sign of Design Chair makes an ordinary outline worth noticing. A simple arrangement can direct attention to use and proportion.
Design
Oase lounge chair
Wim Rietveld’s Oase separates an upholstered seating body from an open tubular support. Two museum records anchor the design story.
Historic object
Oeben mechanical table 70.DA.84
Oeben’s Getty mechanical table opens a hidden workspace and rewinds its springs when closed. Its darkened floral inlay reveals another, slower transformation.